- By KOL News , Written on October 19, 2008
New Delhi, Sunday 19 October 2008: Former communications and IT minister Dayanidhi Maran offered to quit as Member of Parliament on Sunday.
This move comes after all other 14 DMK MPs submitted their resignations to DMK chief and Tamil Nadu CM Karunanidhi on Friday. Maran is expected to submit his resignation to Karunanidhi today.
Stepping up the pressure on the government on the Lankan-Tamil issue, 14 DMK members of Lok Sabha, including seven union ministers, on Friday submitted their resignation to party chief M Karunanidhi in Chennai.
The resignation letters are dated October 29 when the fortnight’s deadline given by the DMK MPs to the Centre to halt Sri Lankan troops’ offensive against LTTE expires.
The union ministers who handed over their resignation letters to Karunanidhi were TR Baalu (Shipping), A Raja (Telecom), Subulakshmi Jagadeesan (Minister of State for Social Justice), S Raghupathy (Minister of State for Environment), SS Palanimanickam (Minister of State for Finance), K Venkatapathy (Minister of State for Law) and V Radhika Selvi (Minister of State for Home).
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it is a good gesture that DMK Mps have submitted their resignation to the prime minister in protest against the killings of innocent tamilians in sri lanka. though it is late for such action we expect sri lankan govt. will take steps to stop killing of our brothers, sisters and children.